Hugged a self-described racist jailed for inciting racial hatred at his party conference. Threatened to ‘don khaki’ in the event of Brexit being frustrated. Disseminated the racist lies of an alleged rapist & stayed silent as racists responded by setting fire to buildings full of foreigners.

Starmer's speech was merciless. It's time to make racists feel afraid again inews.co.uk/opinion/star...

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

I've read it and it is amazing. Also, there is a LOT.

And here we are...

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

“Ladies and gentlemen… Miss Grace Jones. Cod, chips and mushy peas twice please.”

Morning! Inevitable pearl-clutching from the Fail, Starmer finally having engaged with Farage leading the news agenda all summer.

“Sunday brought a tacit admission that the line had been crossed. The first-tee master of ceremonies, the comedian Heather McMahan, stepped down from her role after video showed her leading a chant of ‘Fuck you Rory!’ on Saturday morning….”

German media seems to be taking more seriously than ours the fact a leading light in the party UK press keeps saying will be next government took bribes from Russia to spout their lies. Maybe it’s because they put NEWS ahead of propaganda

Who is telling the Labour Party that the way to blunt Reform's momentum is to fundamentally agree with them but propose alternate bureaucratically nightmarish forms of nativism?

If ever there was a time not to normalize Trump’s authoritarian fever dreams, this is it. This should be impeachable. ‘War ravaged’ Portland? He’s insane - & insanely power hungry. The script is set - call an imaginary group a terror group and then send in the troops.

Kimmel won. Winning matters, wins are how we’re going to prevent this autocratic slide.

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A lot of free speech absolutist are being awfully quiet about this sort of thing.

This is very, very good. Let's see Phillipson say something similar or, God help her, explain why Powell is wrong.

I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

A majority of people who voted Labour last year believe the UK is heading in the wrong direction. A new YouGov poll, commissioned by B4B, finds that the electoral coalition that brought Labour to power blames Brexit for where it's gone wrong. Read more: https://bit.ly/4mv524J

Call of Duty: Black Ops ICE, coming soon.

Spot which one ISN’T a Kremlin asset

I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

There are some rather silly responses to this on here, but the comments beneath the piece are full of thoughtful and knowledgeable objections to my argument. Well worth your time - especially for those who agree with me iandunt.substack.com/p/id-cards-a...

“Sharia courts” are not legally binding in the UK. They only carry weight if both disputed parties *choose* to follow their judgement. It’s like a friend informally mediating a dispute. This needs to be stated in such debates because this inflammatory rhetoric needs to be brought back to reality.

IT'S HERE. I am legit overjoyed to be unleashing this shit on the world: Origin Story Season 7 has arrived. For the first time, we're doing an entire season as one story. This is the history of socialism, from the French Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Genuinely the first time I have ever had to hand it to Kemi Badenoch *Makes "not an anti-vaxxer" the first item in the credit column*

"You don’t fight the politics of violence by quibbling with the details. You stamp it into a million pieces! You draw a f*cking line!" If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him?

Farage’s evidence that Muslims want to takeover London: Wait for it. Taxi drivers. In Buckinghamshire. I’ve heard taxi drivers tell me lampposts are watching us, Covid was a scam and Aston Villa will win the premier league!!

This is because Reform relies on building a coalition of disordered counterpublics reacting against distrusted institutions, and the anti-vax community is part of that, so he knows he needs to keep is vague to avoid upsetting them.

It's obvious that many political reporters know next to nothing about the history of UK immigration policy. Might be useful for all Westminster correspondents to sit a crash course in major policy areas so they don't silly stuff like this

In a sane media culture, this would be the end of him.

Stella rinsing a TeamNigel representative - quoting the points @jdportes.bsky.social has been making about the factual accuracy of their numbers

You’ll be shocked to learn that all the people Nick Robinson mentions here as involved in UK “free speech controversies” are on or adjacent to the far right- Connelly, Linehan, T Robinson, Musk- as are most of the politicians cited, and that he ends with a plea to listen to both sides

This must be the "BBC needs to win the trust of Reform voters" shit they're talking about.

There are political journeys, and then there’s whatever Lembit Opik has been up to since 2010

“The long history of trying to ‘cure’ or eliminate autism has been a history of terrible abuse and dangerous sham treatments." I spoke to @autisticadvocacy.org's Greg Robinson and @drstevenkapp.bsky.social about the awful autism presser yesterday. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

spokesperson for Sadiq Khan: “We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response. “London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”

"it's too much liquid" going into the baby, instantly up there with the injecting bleach moment.

Report out on tax options for the Budget. 2p income tax rise alongside 2p national insurance cut would mean no tax rise for an employee whose income comes from a job. With employment overtaxed at the moment, workers pay packets should be protected and distortions in the tax system removed.

Seeing how they are calling for crimes against humanity, maybe it’s time to proscribe Farage and the Reform Party

Given that the economy is not shrinking by a trillion every year, I think it's reasonable to assume Nigel Farage is talking out of his arse. Let's see if professional journalism can make note of this little glitch in his maths.

First Trailer: “The Mandalorian & Grogu” www.darkhorizons.com/first-traile...

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

Imagine if Richard Nixon had just tweeted out the Watergate scandal rather than putting it on secret tapes. That’s what this is.

what a great idea!

This week’s Nimby Watch is on the councillors of West Oxfordshire, who rejected a solar farm because they felt batteries were unproven and scary technology – presumably while carrying lithium batteries just inches from their vitals. Live now on @capx.co capx.co/nimby-watch-...

PHOTO OF THE DAY: The 2 people used in American Gothic by Grant Wood stand next to the iconic painting. They were Wood’s sister, Nan Graham, and his dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby (1942). 📷 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Archives

This xenophobic nonsense illustrates why the government's proposals to restrict settlement rights is not only wrong but politically self-defeating. Has just encouraged Reform to become even more extreme.